Elliot Norton Awards: Boston set to honor theater’s brightest

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Apr 25, 2008 at 12:01 AM

The Elliot Norton Awards – Boston’s equivalent of Broadway’s Tony Awards – will be given on May 12 at Harvard's Sanders Theater.

Outgoing Huntington Theatre Company Artistic Director Nicholas Martin will be the guest of honor at the 26th annual Elliot Norton Awards to be handed out on May 12 at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre. Award-winning actress Andrea Martin, no relation, will present him with the 2008 Elliot Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence.

The awards – Boston’s equivalent of Broadway’s Tony Awards – honor this region’s finest actors and theater productions. They are named for Boston’s dean of American drama critics, Elliot Norton, who died in 2003 at the age of 100. Patriot Ledger theater critic Iris Fanger is among the 10 members of the awards committee.